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Project: PTDC/ASP-PLA/4477/2020

Project name: DrosuGreen - Controlling the quarantine pest Drosophila suzukii through epidemiological studies and new Green biocontrol techniques
Project code: PTDC/ASP-PLA/4477/2020
Proposing institution/Lead promoter/Coordinating entity: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Partner(s)/Co-promoter(s)/Participating institution(s): Associação BIOPOLIS; Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares; Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Date of approval: 2020-12-17
Start date: 2021-03-01
Completion date: 2025-02-28
Eligible Cost of the Project
Total Eligible Cost: 249.654,62 EUR
Eligible Cost in the University of Porto: 180.459,98 EUR
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto: 180.459,98 EUR
Total Financial Support
Orçamento de Estado: 249.654,62 EUR
Financial Support to the University of Porto
Total of the University of Porto: 180.459,98 EUR
Nacional/Regional | Orçamento de Estado | Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto: 180.459,98 EUR
Objectives, activities and expected/achieved results
DrosuGreen project addresses multiple unsolved questions that will contribute to better understand SWD population/biology and develop innovative strategies of biocontrol by 3 pillars of approach:



1 1) Disclose SWD populations genomes to understand invasion routes and epidemiological profiles;



2 2) Identify SWD and the SWD-microbiome responses to adverse conditions (by combining transcriptional and physiological targets in stressed-SWD); unveil how the SWD-microbiome contributes to SWD survival, specially during the winter months (overwinter), and if microbiome manipulation can be a tool to fight SWD;



3 3) Develop new biocontrol strategies using entomopathogenic fungi (EF) and spider venom peptides (SVPs), reducing the risk of SWD-resistance to insecticides.

DrosuGreen is being developed by a consortium of three teams, namely, FCUP-LAQV/REQUIMTE, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO/InBIO, and CITAB. The FCUP-LAQV/REQUIMTE team participates in SWD biological studies and microbiome interactions, as well as the synthesis and development of SVPs as new control agents against SWD; BIOPOLIS team participates in the population genomics studies and CITAB team participates in the use of EF as a sustainable biological alternative to agrochemicals to control SWD.
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